Definition of Icarus

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned.

Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Mythical Being

Lexicographical Neighbors of Icarus

Ibizan
Ibizan Hound
Ibizan Hounds
Ibizan Podenco
Ibizan hound
Iblis
Ibn al-Haytham
Ibo
Ibrahim
Ibrahimic
Ibsen
Ibsenesque
Ibsenian
Ibycus
Icaricia
Icarus (current term)
Icehouse
Icel.
Iceland
Iceland disease
Iceland lichen
Iceland moss
Iceland poppy
Iceland spar
Icelander
Icelanders
Icelandic
Icelandic-speaking
Icelandic Sheepdog
Icelandic Sheepdogs

Literary usage of Icarus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1887)
"GA LEWCOCK ;, Oxford Road, Islington, N. LYC^ENA Icarus, HERMAPHRODITE (?).—I took on the Landslip, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, 19th August, 1886, ..."

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